Reasons to Leave
The Explorers
In North America
In Africa and Asia
World Trade
100

What motivated Europeans to explore the world in the 1400s and 1500s?  (3 Answers.  Points for each!)

God, Gold, Glory

100

Which French explorer claimed much of Canada for France?

Jacques Cartier

100

Which North American empires collapsed at the hands of the Spanish as a result of superior weaponry and disease? (Must include both for the points).

Inca and Aztec

100

What was the name of the voyage between Africa and New World that enslaved Africans were forced into?

The Middle Passage

100

The ______________________ Exchange was the name of the trade that brought new products to Africa, Europe, and the New World

Columbian Exchange

200

Which device could help explorers find the position of the sun, thus giving them a sense of direction?

The Astrolabe

200

Which explorer thought he found India, but it was actually islands in the Caribbean?

Christopher Columbus

200
Which group of people were used by Europeans for labor in the New World?

Africans (Slaves not accepted as an answer.  They are Africans first)

200

How was the continent of Africa changed by European contact? (Points for each answer).

Increase in the slave trade, firearms introduced, destruction of families, loss of best workers

200

Which animals were brought from Europe to the Americas

Horses and cattle

300

What type of ship had triangle sails, multiple masts, and helped Europeans travel more quickly?

The Caravel

300

Which Englishman was a legal pirate who circumnavigate the globe?

Francis Drake

300

Which religions were forced on the people of North America?

Christianity/Protestantism/Catholicism

300

What did the people of Asia resist when Europeans came to their shores? (Points for each correct answer).

Their culture, their trade, their religion

300

__________________ were large farms in the New World where Europeans would use enslaved labor to produce large quantities of products like sugar can, cotton and tobacco

Plantations

400

__________________ and ____________________ are lines around the globe that allow us to find coordinates. (Need both answers.  Half credit for one answer)

latitude and longitude

400

Which Spanish explorers (conqistadores) came to the Americas and collapsed the civilizations they found there? (Points for both)

Pizarro, Cortes

400

Europeans set up class systems (like they had grown up with) in the New World.  Which type person had the most power in society in the New World?

Europeans

400

The ________________ between the New World, Africa, and Europe spread goods between the continents and increased the use of enslaved labor in North America

Triangle Trade

500

Which Portuguese prince gathered together mathematicians, astronomers, and cartographers to revolutionize travel?

Prince Henry

500

Which Portuguese explorer gets the credit for the first circumnavigation around the globe, even though he died in the process?

Ferdinand Magellan